Horst Tiwald

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Horst Tiwald (born May 6, 1938 ; † 2013 ) was an Austrian sports psychologist and university professor .

Life

Tiwald was born in Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria and grew up there. After obtaining his Matura in 1956, he studied physical education at the University of Vienna and one semester at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He was a student of Margarete Streicher and Hans Groll . Tiwald wrote his doctoral thesis in philosophy, which he accepted at the University of Vienna in 1964, on the subject of "Physical education from the perspective of Zen Buddhism".

Between 1964 and 1970 Tiwald worked in Linz as an adult education center teacher before he went to Germany  and from 1970 to 1972 held a position as assistant professor for sport psychology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1972 he moved to the University of Hamburg , where a year later he was appointed to a professorship for sports psychology. He remained in this position until the beginning of his retirement in 2003, but remained active in teaching and research at the university. From 1972 to 1980 Tiwald was managing director of the institute for physical exercises at the University of Hamburg. As part of a research semester, he worked in Indonesia  for a project for the Berlin Senate.

At the University of Hamburg he led research projects in the areas of social and handicapped work, drug therapy, work with foreigners, in companies, in promoting talent, on the subject of "100 years of Alpine skiing" and on the subject of "Hamburg City of Sports". Other fields of activity were "natural movement" in the tradition of reform pedagogy, mental training, aggression research, aspects of learning and motivational psychology in physical education, critical sports theory, transcultural movement research (including cultural dialogue with China), Taijiquan and Qigong, and development an interdisciplinary communication channel for alpine skiing.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. HORST TIWALD: My career. (PDF) Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Horst Tiwald in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on February 16, 2019) 
  3. ↑ Otmar Sauer: Natural Movement in the Taji . In: Taijiquan and Qigong Network Germany eV (Ed.): Network magazine. Magazine of the Taijiquan and Qigong Network Germany eV 2016, p. 15 .
  4. ↑ Horst Tiwald: On the theory of mental training . In: physical exercises, physical education . tape 26 , no. 5 , 1972, p. 98-102 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 16, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Horst Tiwald: Philosophical Aspects of Sports Science Aggression Research . 1974, ISBN 978-3-87958-903-6 , pp. 96–101 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 16, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Horst Tiwald: Learning and motivational psychological aspects of physical education . 1974, ISBN 978-3-87958-903-6 , pp. 79–95 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 16, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Horst Tiwald: Critical Sports Theory: for a problem-oriented introduction to sports science (=  Budo and transcultural movement research ). Czwalina, 1983, ISBN 978-3-88020-109-5 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on February 16, 2019]).
  8. ↑ ChinBeKu - Scientific Academy for Chinese Movement Art and Lifestyle. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Horst Tiwald: THEORY FRAGMENTS ON TAIJIQUAN AND QIGONG. (PDF) Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tiwald, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sports psychologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Krems at the Donau
DATE OF DEATH 2013